Suspender or other buckle



(No Model.)

0. R. HARRIS.

SUSPENDBR OR OTHER BUCKLE.

No. 345,967. Patented July 20, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATEN QF E 1.6a.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF JERSEY SHORE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND \VILLIAM SILVERMAN, OF \VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENDER OR OTHER BUCKLE.

Q P ETCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,967, dated July 20,1886.

A ndication filed January 2, 1886. Serial No. 187,496. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. Hanars, of Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, State of Pen nsylvania, have invented new and useful Im-.

provemcnts in Suspender and other Buckles, of which the following is a.- l'ull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to snspender and other like buckles, or combined buckles and hooks, and in which,ordinarily,a fixed toothed bar in the rear of the body or frame of the buckle is used. It differs in important respects from the buckle for which Letters Patent No. 3l-i,()lS were issued to me March 17, 1885, and in which a fixed bar of hollow construction having teeth along both of its edges for operation in connection with a presscr-bar forming part of the folding or closing portion of the buckle was used; also, in which the folding or closing portion of the buckle was made, when closed, to loop over or overlap the hook of the buckle; and the present invention consists in various novel constructions and combinations of parts,substantially as hereinafter described, the same i ncluding a double hook or hook. with in a hook, atubular hinged construction of the opening and closing portion of the buckle adapted to receive and hold the ends of the wires of which the two main portions of the buckle are composed, a flat cross-bar with sin gle row of inclined teeth, a prcsscr-bar formed of double wire, a plate fastened to the presserbar and provided with teeth, and an indented construction of the sides of the bucklcframe to keep the cross-bar from slipping.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

view of the buckle as seen when thrown open.

The buckle is principally composed of two independent main parts, A and B, the one, A, including the frame or body part of thebuckle, and being made of spring-wire, and the other part, B, which is also made of springwire, or mainly so, including the opening and closing portion of the buckle.

0 indicates the main strap or web ofthe suspenders, or one of them, on which the buckle is adjusted, and D the front detached end portion of the suspenders, with attached ring b, by which said end parts are connected with the hook or hooks of the buckle.

The frame or body A of the buckle is constructed at its lower end so that the wire of which it is composed for1ns a spring doubledwire hook, c, the sides of which are separated from each other, as at d. The upper ends, a a, of said frame are entered within a tubular hinge or sleeve, 0, to which the spring-wire of the folding or closing portion B is attached, and said wire portion is constructed at its lower or outer end to form a larger spring doubled-wire hook, f, of sufficient capacity, so that when closed down to its place on the web or strap 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it will receivethe smaller hook, c,within it, and so that the larger hook, f,will spring over the smaller one, 0, and the spring or friction of the one hook passing over the other will tend to keep both hooks and main portions A B of the buckle in position when closed. Said construction also provides for the elasticity of the smaller hook, c, at its top or outer end, and the elasticity of the larger hook, f, at its back or bottom securely holding the ring I) of the snspendcr-strap end portion, D, in place, and to keep said ring from working out of place. This construction likewise forms, when the buckle is closed, a compound hook, c andf, of great strength.

The tubular hinge or sleeve 0 receives within it the four ends a a and h h of the frame A and front portion, B, of the buckle, the opening and closing portion B of the buckle turning upon the end portions, (0 a, and the bent end parts h It being engaged with the sleeve 0 by a downward socket-like projection, z', there from. This projection i, lapping around the upper terininal'portions of the doubled wire of which the portion 13 is mainly composed, and which includes the presscr-bar portion 7.: of said opening and closing section B of the buckle, serves to hold the wire firm, and it is arranged so that the longitudinal seam of the sleeve 0 is prevented from exposing its raw edge on top,which would make a rough finish.

The wire of which the portion B is composed is doubled and bent so as-not only to form the donbledwirehook f, but also a doubled-wire pressing-bar, It, as shown in Fig,

3, and which will have great strength. To give said presserbara betterhold when closed upon the web 0 of the suspenders, it has combined with it ametal plate, Z, which is applied as a cover to the outer surface of the arms forming the presser-bar, and clinched around said arms,as by bending over and down toothed projections m, and which is provided with other teeth, a, standing out from the under side of the presser-bar, so as to pierce and take hold on the web 0 opposite the fixed toothed bar S on the frame or body A of the buckle, thereby giving a secure toothed hold on both sides of the web when the buckle is closed on the latter, and held closed by the engagement of the ring I) of the end portion, D, of the suspenders with the two hooks c f, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In some cases the toothed plate Z may be omitted from the presser-bar.

The fixed barS is of a flat construction, and has its teeth 0, which are set inclining downward, arranged along its upper edge to hold onto the web 0 when pressed into place by the presser-bar on the opposite side of the web. To keep this flat cross-bar S from slid ing up the buckle-frame when the suspenders have a heavy strain thrown upon them, said bar is held to its place on the frame by indenting the opposite sides of the latter and turm ing the ends of the bar over the crooks or indentations o 2; made in the frame.

The crooks or indentionsv e are not of cu rvilinear form throughout their length, but are made so as to present straight continuations of the buckle-frame to form straight bearings for the flat cross-bar S at its end, which are turned over said straight indented parts of the sides of the frame, such straight indented parts corresponding in length with the width of said bar at its ends.

The tubular sleeve e,which forms the hinge er joint portion of the buckle, instead of be ing in a single piece, as represented, may be of a sectional eonstruetionthat is, be formed in two separate pieces or sleeves, one on each side-nor is the socket-like projection t absolutely necessary for attaching the folding portion B of the buckle to the tubular sleeve.

The buckle is applied to and adjusted up or down the web 0 of the suspender as other suspender-buckles provided with a hook on the lower end, fixed bar on their frames, and

a presser-bar attached to the opening and closing portion of the buckle are applied and adjusted.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The buckle provided with twohooks, the one of which projects from the frame of the buckle and the other of which is carried by the folding or closing portion of the buckle, and is constructed and arranged to hold and receive the hook of the frame portion within it, thereby forming a compound hook, substantially as specified.

2. The frame A of a buckle, having at its one or lower end aspring doubled-wire hook, c, in combination with the folding or closing front portion, B, of the buckle, provided with a spring double-wire hook, f, constructed and arranged to receive and hold the hook 0 within it, essentially as described.

3. The tubular sleeve 0 of the buckle, in combination with the wire buckle-frame A and the wire folding and closing portion B, having their ends a a and biz, respectively, both entered within said sleeve in like axial relation with one another and with the sleeve, substantially as specified.

4. The tubular sleeve 0 of the buckle, pro- "ided with a socket-like projection, '11, in combination with the wire buckle-frame A and Wire folding and closing portion B, having their ends act and h it entered within said sleeve part, substantially as specified.

5. In combination with the frame A of the buckle, the wire folding and closing portion B of the buckle, bent to form a doubled'wirc presser-bar, 7c, essentially as shown and described.

6. The combination, with the doubledwire presserbar k, of the plate Z, secured thereto and provided with teeth a, substantially as specified.

7. The flat fixed crossbar S, in combination with the frame A,havingindentations o in its sides, made to form straight indented continuations of the sides of the frame of a length corresponding with the width of said bar at its ends,for the reception and hold of the bar, essentially as described.

8. The fixed cross bar S, provided with downwardly-inclined teeth 0 along its one or upper edge, in combination with the presserbar of the buckle, substantially as specified.

CHARLES R. HARRIS.

NVitnesses:

SETH T. MCCORMICK, GEO. E. GRAFF.

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